Yeah the biggest problem is these incidents often result in a driver getting knocked out of the race, sure you could penalize the offending driver in many ways but that doesn't help the driver that is now out of this race. Like KelVarnsen said its hard to pass in F1 and you don't want to mess with the flow of the race either. All contact penalties should be handled on the next race if it changes the outcome of the current race, keep time penalties for track limits and other offenses.
Gaining and losing positions on the next race doesn't help either because if you award positions you are punishing the whole field, that's why the position swap would work although if I knew I was swapping positions there could be ways to throw qualifying etc.
Work in progress it just sucks to see drivers knocked out due to no fault of their own especially turn 1 incidents.
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